Dr Frank Tietze

At the Centre for Technology Management Frank leads a research group that takes a management (firm level) perspective on Innovation and Intellectual Property. Frank runs regular meetings of an IP interest group (IPIG). Please get in touch if you like to join that group. 

Before joining the IfM in 2014 Frank was Assistant Professor at the Institute for Innovation Research  at Kiel University (CAU), Germany oldest research centre dedicated to innovation management, where he also provided lectures to the Kiel School of Sustainability . He is research fellow at the Innovation and Intellectual Property Research Group  at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Frank holds a doctoral degree in economics and social sciences from Hamburg University of Technology  (TUHH) and particularly the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management . An entrepreneurial excursion led Frank to co-found the venture backed start-up ARKTIK GmbH  in 2008, an award-winning climate care company for compensating CO2 mobility emissions. He was member of the executive management board until end of 2009.

For more information, see Frank Tietze's biography on the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) website.